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The Death of the Perfect Villain: What Modern TV Villains Tell Us About a Collapsing World
Michael Myers wore a blank white mask.
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I Went to the Titanic Museum in Belfast and Walked Out Wondering What I’d Just Bought
I spent ninety minutes moving through the Titanic Belfast exhibition, reading about the ship’s construction, the class divisions among passengers, the…
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Why Are We Suddenly Obsessed With Medieval Things Again?
From Kingdom Come: Deliverance II to medieval TikTok creators, chainmail fashion, manuscript memes, and fantasy aesthetics, the Middle Ages have become…
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Monsters Made in Scotland: Frankenstein’s Legacy and Post-Colonial Anxiety in Poor Things
What if the creature had lived?
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Beauty Blooms Where Bodies Fall: The Flowers of Greek Death
Apollo could not save him.
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There’s No Place Like Home, Or Is There? The Ambivalence of Return in Coraline and The Wizard of Oz
Both of the most famous girls in children’s literature escape home for magic, and both are trapped by what they find there.
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Is Football the Last Place We Still Believe in Magic?
When reports emerged that a Ghanaian witch doctor had placed a curse on Harry Kane ahead of the 2026 World Cup, many fans laughed.
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The Hollowing of the Strong Female Character: How a Useful Phrase Became Marketing Noise
The phrase “strong female character” is older than most of its current users realize.
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The Aesthetics of Possession: Desire, Age Asymmetry, and the Ethics of the Enchanted Gaze in Lolita and Labyrinth
What happens when a predator is framed as enchanted rather than predatory?
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Before TikTok Romanticised Castles and Moonlit Forests, There Was The Secret of Moonacre
In 2008, a Hungarian animator best known for co-creating Rugrats made a live-action children’s fantasy film so lavishly, so unmistakably aligned with a…
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Why Can’t Toy Story Let Go? A Franchise That Refuses to End
Toy Story was always a series about letting go.
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Heathcliff as the Devil: Theological Transgression and Demonic Masculinity in Wuthering Heights
When Charlotte Brontë sat down in 1850 to defend her sister’s novel against the reviewers who had called it vulgar, depraved, and nearly unreadable, she…
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